Horses

Ken McNabb Clinic
Ken McNabb created a positive environment for riders of all abilities and disciplines, with a strong emphasis on the fundamen...

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February 5, 2024
Flower’s Story
Moments of sorrow often pave the way for the brightest joys. We witnessed this when adopter Jewels met Flower, a spunky filly...

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January 29, 2024
HorseAlert
HorseAlert is a free emergency response tool for use by the Colorado equine community during natural disasters. Like popular ...

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January 22, 2024
Horse Highlight
Both of these adorable ponies are available for adoption and are looking for non-riding homes. If you’re looking for two ad...

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November 16, 2023
No Hoof, No Horse – The Importance of Hoof Care
Providing consistent, balanced hoof care that honors a horse’s age and stage helps support their overall quality of life an...

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November 14, 2023
Shakti’s Story
Shakti is a great example of the CHR safety net in practice, and we are so thankful to have had the chance to find her a last...

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February 21, 2023
CHR Training Program – An Alternative Approach
We believe that these philosophies of fairness, consistency, and out-of-the-box thinking applied thoughtfully have the collec...

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November 14, 2022
Companion Connection
CHR is passionate about caring for these horses who have given so much throughout their lives, which is why we decided to des...

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August 19, 2022
A Surprise Pregnancy at CHR
Whimsy's Surprise Foal CHR rescued Whimsy in November of 2021 at a local livestock auction. This gentle, ...

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March 1, 2022
Sophie’s Herd
Today, we would like to highlight a past volunteer of ours and the horses that have found such beautiful lives in her herd....

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November 4, 2021
Catch Up With Tyra
While her two sisters have been awaiting their new foals, Tyra has gone through CHR’s training program for haltering and le...

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June 3, 2021
Foster February
A “Rescue Horse” is a Horse. A “Foster Home” is a Home....

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February 8, 2021
Winter With Horses 101
It is autumn in Colorado, which only means one thing: plummeting temperatures and mountains of snow are quickly approaching!...

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November 12, 2020
Jagger and Fern Find New Beginnings
Our dream at CHR is to offer every horse that strides through our gates a safe solution and hopefully a second...

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October 1, 2020
The Hidden Fern
It was clear that she was both highly intelligent and food motivated. This eagerness was a great sign for us. We were quickly...

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September 4, 2020
Fern’s First Chapter
Within our last few articles, we discussed the amazing amount of progress that each of our horses had made while enrolled in ...

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July 14, 2020
Bittersweet Adoptions
Our mission at the Colorado Horse Rescue at its barest is to take in equines that have found unfortunate circumstances, all ...

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June 19, 2020
Introduction to Positive Reinforcement
We are a lucky group of people to be living in the Renaissance of horsemanship!...

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Learning from Sven
Colt starting. This term is thrown around the equine industry in order to explain the process of making a “green” or unex...

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May 22, 2020
Riddle Finds Peace and Balance
Over the last couple of months I have found so much joy in working with a special Quarab (Arabian/Quarter Horse Cross) mare o...

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January 11, 2020
Huckleberry Learns to Trust
It would be a colossal understatement to say that Huckleberry has made progress in her training since her last training updat...

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October 26, 2019
Huckleberry’s Training Begins
In December of 2018, little Huckleberry came to the Colorado Horse Rescue from a private owner as a truly puzzling mare....

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October 5, 2019
Cosmo’s Training Update
Last we left Cosmo, he was just beginning his training journey....

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September 27, 2019
Cosmo’s Training Blog
Cosmo is an 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood/Hosteiner cross gelding who is green-broke and available for adoption!...

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September 14, 2019
Odin Learns with Flag Densensitization
Our adorable Welsh Pony's education continues!...

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May 8, 2019
Checking in with Odin
Here is Odin's latest blog post thanks to his sponsors, Colorado Safari Properties!...

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April 10, 2019
Odin’s Journey in Training
A huge thank you to Colorado Safari Properties, who have chosen to sponsor the adorable Welsh Pony, Odin, in his training....

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March 16, 2019
Alfie’s Fast Friend
Last month, an adorable Painted Miniature gelding named Pippen arrived at CHR from a loving owner in financial crisis....

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November 28, 2018
Bristol’s Training Update
This brave little horse is conquering new obstacles every day! Check out her newest video, the tarp is no big deal these days...

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April 24, 2018
Monterey in Training
Check out rescued Mustang mare, Monterey, in her first steps of an education on the ground....

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March 10, 2018
Bristol in Training
Check out the training progress of CHR's Mustang mares, Bristol. This curious youngster is earning a much-needed education to...

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February 27, 2018
Elvis Goes Home for the Holidays
In July I felt I was in a place where I could work with another rescue horse, so I started looking on some of the Facebook ho...

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January 7, 2018
Welcome Home Stitch
The Journey began about a year or so ago as we were looking to add an addition to our horse family....

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December 6, 2017

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